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| Oklahoma moves to consolidate juvenile detention centers |
| By newsok.com- Dale Denwalt |
| Published: 05/10/2017 |
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Two bills pushed by the Juvenile Affairs Office would let the agency consolidate its higher-security beds and expand lower-security community intervention centers. Gov. Mary Fallin has received Senate Bill 228, which would reopen the intervention center program after budget cuts at Juvenile Affairs. The office was able to contract with private entities to open community intervention center (CICs), but the program was put on hold, said Juvenile Affairs Executive Director Steven Buck. “We had to eliminate our funding for CICs. With the absence of that, we had lost the ability to have certification because it was tied to contracts,” Buck said. Read More. |
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